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Sunday, August 20

South to Toliara

What was it that Longfellow said? Ultima Thule! Utmost Isle! The ancient mariners set their sails for it, a land of rugged beauty and dreams just realized. I have found my Ultima Thule for a while friends. I have sailed to her o’er sunlit seas, found her on the horizon and set a course for her, That land of fiction and of truth, The lost Atlantis of our youth! She does not harbor the Moslem dhows I remember of yesteryear, nor the glass bottom boats of my youth. No, she is not the same as my Mombasa but perhaps better. How far since then the ocean streams Have swept us from the land of dreams. But we must not stop dreaming friends. Ultima Thule! And we sailed for Anakao.